There's that saying: 'No man is a hero to his valet.' It's the same between flatmates. — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
Almost anyone can give me the willies. Man or woman, Asian, black or white, young or old. — Jesse Armstrong Asian Copy Share Image
When you're a nerd, you know there's a million types of neurotic self-loathing. — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
I guess I'm interested in politics - I'm interested in ideas and ideology. — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
I read about lots of media moguls: Sumner Redstone, Conrad Black, Robert Maxwell. — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
If you're making a satirical show and you're aiming to change something, I'd say you're on a fool's errand. — Jesse Armstrong Change Copy Share Image
We read the financial papers and there's a ton of tech and media mergers and acquisitions we're likely to take inspiration from. — Jesse Armstrong Acquisitions Copy Share Image
Red Alert' is a gripping cold war bomber-command procedural. But read now, you can see 'Dr Strangelove' - the film which took… — Jesse Armstrong Cold Copy Share Image
For people who come from powerful families, there is nothing in life quite as interesting as being at court. — Jesse Armstrong Court Copy Share Image
All powerful people make foolish decisions and end up in humiliating and embarrassing situations, as well as wielding their power. — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
Character is key. Once you've got that voice going, everything else can follow. If you've also got the right tone, you're in… — Jesse Armstrong Character Copy Share Image
We always knew that we could write what it's like to be men together, bickering, but also having this fondness. — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
Everyone has tacit levels of trust, don't we? In every interaction that takes place in our professional and personal lives we have… — Jesse Armstrong Boundaries Copy Share Image
In my own experience with films, books, plays, TV, I don't want somebody telling me what it means, because I think I… — Jesse Armstrong Books Copy Share Image
I do think it's really tough being super-rich, really hard-working and wanting to get some sort of immortality by passing on the… — Jesse Armstrong Death Copy Share Image
I started reading about media moguls in general, and Sumner Redstone and Rupert Murdoch both made the same joke: they both were… — Jesse Armstrong Day Copy Share Image
Wimbledon fortnight is always a testing time for the home worker. I spend most of it on the phone to my writing… — Jesse Armstrong Character Copy Share Image
Most of us now have opinions on such things as road tolling, the U.S. position on climate change, and the correct colour… — Jesse Armstrong Change Copy Share Image
As a private individual, it's probably not worth having a foreign policy of your own at all. Not unless you own at… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
Standups always like the room cold, and if you're shooting a sitcom live you want it a little bit chilly for the… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
One of the things that strikes me when I've read about these families - whether it be the Maxwells or the Redstones… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
I never got to see inside No 10, but I did once go to Ann Widdecombe's ministerial office under the Commons where… — Jesse Armstrong Diet Copy Share Image
A lot of research went into 'Succession.' I wrote the pilot solo, so there was a good deal of my own research… — Jesse Armstrong Experience Copy Share Image
As a writer you often watch things with a certain distance.. More often, you're worried that something that you have invented is… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
Roy Chubby Brown's offensive material is disgusting to me, an offensive beating-down of people who have already been beaten down plenty, culturally… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
What you don't think when you sit down to write a show is, 'How can I be shocking?' That question isn't interesting,… — Jesse Armstrong Comedy Copy Share Image
From working on heavily researched films such as 'Four Lions' and 'In the Loop,' I knew that research in itself is nothing… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
So often in TV you're looking at the monitor thinking, 'Oh, yeah, that sort of looks a bit like that other TV… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
My daughter, who says 'Horrible Histories' is her favourite programme, gets that the tone is sophisticated and that it takes children seriously.… — Jesse Armstrong Children Copy Share Image
I don't buy the thing that you can't do satire in the age of Trump. You just have to be funny and… — Jesse Armstrong Age Copy Share Image
I wouldn't defend comedy that I find offensive, but there is a lot of comedy that some people find offensive which I… — Jesse Armstrong Comedy Copy Share Image
Comedy is not good for anything, really. Apart from being one of the only things that makes life worth living. — Jesse Armstrong Comedy Copy Share Image
You've only got so much plot, character and psychological capital. One day it will be gone and you don't know when that… — Jesse Armstrong Character Copy Share Image
With my writing partner, Sam Bain, I have gone on to write for lots of shows, including our co-creation 'Peep Show,' two… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
Writing a sitcom compared with writing a novel is a bit like the difference between going on a big, noisy group holiday… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
If you're writing a show about modern media moguls, Rupert Murdoch and his family are an incredibly important model and some of… — Jesse Armstrong Family Copy Share Image
This is the tragedy of the entrepreneur. They literally cannot slack off. That's why Alan Sugar looks so jowly, tired and angry,… — Jesse Armstrong Angry Copy Share Image
The writers' room is an open forum where anything mad or weird that aggressively shakes up the show can be suggested and… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
I'm uncomfortable with the word satire. In the U.K., there's quite a bit of sledgehammer weight to that word, which is the… — Jesse Armstrong Satire Copy Share Image
